UWA Handbook 2024

Unit Overview

Description

This is the fourth and final Pre-Clerkship Unit in the Global MD primary care longitudinal stream which extends over the first 2 years of the Global MD program. There is a focus on AMC Domain 2: Clinical Practice, Domain 3: Health and Society, Domain 4: Professionalism & Leadership.?

The unit consolidates professional behaviour, communication and consultation skills, systems-specific history taking, physical examination and clinical reasoning covered in the concurrent Integrated Medical Systems units, via continuation of observerships in primary care (four clinical placements per semester) and small group learning (four times per semester). Students will present cases from their primary care visits in TBL format, with application of Integrated Medicine scientific and clinical learning and USMLE preparation to clinical aspects of primary care. Topics selected will emphasise core clinical aspects of primary care, such as common acute illness, chronic disease assessment and management, early recognition and diagnosis of serious illness and health promotion. Students will also be introduced to ethics and law considerations for clinical practice in the United States. In recognition of the approaching USMLE Step 1 examination, there will be an increasing emphasis on the integration of biomedical science knowledge into clinical presentations relevant to primary care, and team skills that support learning. Upon completion of this Unit students should have adequate clinical skills to commence Clerkship in Tucson, Arizona.

Credit

6 points

Offering

Availability	Location	Mode
Not available in 2024	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) define and demonstrate professional behaviour in the educational and clinical settings; (2) demonstrate reflection and insight to recognise effects of well-being and difficulties on performance and access support services when necessary; (3) display team skills and respect, value and utilise the expertise, opinions and skills of other team members; (4) discuss the classification, epidemiology, aetiology, anatomy, pathophysiology, clinical and pathological manifestations, natural history, diagnostic principles and therapeutic principles for specified medical conditions relevant to primary care; (5) demonstrate an organised approach to taking a medical history and physical examination and integrate findings into clinical reasoning; (6) identify personal learning needs and implement a personal learning plan; (7) exhibit understanding of ethico-legal medical practice in Australia and in the United States; and (8) merge clinical and scientific knowledge in preparation for USMLE step 1.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) in-semester assessment; (2) end of semester assessment; and (3) professional behaviour assessment. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the professional behaviour assessment component.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Helen Wilcox

Unit rules

Prerequisites

GMED5302 Primary Care 3

Co-requisites

GMED5401 Integrated Medicine 3

Approved quota: 105—selection for the Global MD will be overseen with the Medical School's Medicine and Dentistry Admission and Selection Committee, and be consistent with the approved and advertised selection processes for the standard UWA MD (course code 91850).

Contact hours

2 hours a week